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ALAN ROULSTONE

PUB ARTIST (1918-1989)

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West Arms Llanarmon
Boat Inn Erbistock
Old Bull Horncastle
Ye Olde Poppe Inne Tatworth
Moon & Sixpence Tintern
Old Mill Shipston-on-Stour
victoria hotel llanbedr
Lake Bank Hotel Blawith
Kings Head Five Lanes
Silver Plough Pitton
New Inn Phillack
Three Crowns Chagford
Anchor Inn Bettws-y-Crwyn
Bicknoller Inn Bicknoller
Blue Pig Grantham
Bell Inn Stilton
Ye Olde Plough Bolnhurst
Black Swan Much Dewchurch
Sondes Arms Rockingham
Black Bull Mkt Overton
Bewicke Arms Hallaton
Salusbury Arms Tremeirchion
Cock Inn Sibson
The Pub History Society
The Old Mill Hotel at Shipston-on-Stour 1954.
Another book in the same series was devoted to the Cotswolds, but no copy has come down, and it is unknown whether the splendid Old Mill at Shipston-on-Stour Gloucestershire featured in it or not. The manner in which the subject itself has been pushed back into the middle distance to allow prominence to a wall and bridge in the foreground is again typical of Roulstone's approach.
The Victoria Hotel at Llanbedr 1954.
A further drawing from 1954 is an interior of the attractive Victoria Hotel at Llanbedr Powys. Here two settles are prominently featured, as well as an inglenook and a principal beam; but the main focus is on a grandfather clock, and one wonders how many publicans today would run the risk of displaying such an object in a public room. Roulstone's drawing at least proves it was once there.
The Lake Bank Hotel at Blawith 1957.
Most of Roulstone's earlier drawings were done with a mapping-pen and India ink, but well before 1957, when he drew the Lake Bank Hotel at Blawith, Cumbria he had switched to fountain-pens (and was to switch again later to fibre-tips). This drawing was one of a large number made in the Lake District over a period of some months, and featured in one of two books devoted to the region entitled Travellers Rest Around the English Lakes.

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